STAMPED 'I.B. CRESSON', MID-18TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XV GILTWOOD BERGERES
STAMPED 'I.B. CRESSON', MID-18TH CENTURY
Each with arched back, arms and squab-cushion covered in yellow floral velvet, the toprail with central heart-shaped cartouche flanked by floral scrolls and with scallop-shell angles above the conformingly-carved C-scroll seat-rail and on cabriole legs headed by conforming motifs to the front and with scallop-shells to the back-legs, terminating in raised foliate scroll feet, stamped to the inside back-rail (2)

Lot Essay

Jean-Baptiste Cresson, maître in 1741.

The richly carved, fluid lines of these generously proportioned bergères is characteristic of the elegant 'pittoresque' style practised by Parisian menuisiers in the 1740's and 1750's.

Jean-Baptiste Cresson came from a famous family of menuisiers, his father Charles having receievd his maîtrise in 1720. A related pair of bergères in the Wrightsman Collection by his cousin Louis Cresson, who received his maîtrise in 1738, is illustrated in F.J.B. Watson, The Wrightsman Collection: Furniture, New York, 1966, vol. I, p. 23, cat. 17.

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